Local Audit and Accountability Bill [HL]

My Lords, I begin too by thanking and joining the Minister in her tribute to her predecessor, the...

My Lords, let me welcome the Minister, the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, to her first, and probab...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lord Tope and to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for we...

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

My Lords, I shall speak also to the other amendments in this group. These amendments clarify how ...

My Lords, I welcome these amendments. I apologise to the Minister for not being in my place for t...

My Lords, as we have heard, this group of amendments addresses the application of the Bill to a p...

I am grateful both to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, and to the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, for welc...

Moved by

Earl Attlee

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

My Lords, the amendments in this group make a number of clarifications to Part 5 of the Bill, whi...

My Lords, I shall speak specifically to Amendment 18. I refer to the Explanatory Notes on the Com...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her detailed explanation of the amendments in this group. Our ...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for confirming that he is content with these...

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

My Lords, in moving the Motion on Amendment 26, I shall speak also to the other amendments in thi...

My Lords, I expect we all welcome the intentions of the amendments: I certainly do. I must confes...

My Lords, I relate to what the noble Lord, Lord Tope, has just said. I have a mental image of the...

My Lords, I occasionally encounter some unfortunate being who has apparently had nothing better t...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for his and the Opposition’s support for these amendments. I am a...

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

My Lords, I beg to move that this House do agree with the Commons in their amendments 27 to 29 en...

My Lords, could I make a brief point about Amendment 27 and the group as a whole? It relates to t...

My Lords, this amendment takes us back to the thorny issue of council tax at referendums. We have...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for his final statement in confirming t...

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

I shall speak also to Amendment 103. These amendments would modernise the arrangements that gover...

I particularly welcome this amendment for all the reasons recited by the noble Baroness. I think ...

My Lords, we should thank the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, for raising this matter in the first place...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for his support for these amendments an...

I shall speak also to Amendments 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57 and 58, which relate to the eligi...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his explanation of this quite large group of amendments. I bel...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his support for these amendments. I beg to move.

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

Moved by

Earl Attlee:

My Lords, I beg to move that this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 41, which is...

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

Moved by

Earl Attlee:

My Lords, Amendment 43 removes internal drainage boards which are partly in England and partly in...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his explanation of this amendment. I accept that it is consequ...

My Lords, I am grateful for the noble Lord’s support. I beg to move.

Moved by

Earl Attlee:

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

My Lords, these amendments extend the potential purposes for which a data-matching exercise can b...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her explanation of these amendments and her kind remarks. As h...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for his very gracious welcome to this a...

Moved by

Baroness Stowell of Beeston

My Lords, Commons Amendments 77 to 101 make a number of minor and technical related and consequen...

My Lords, we accept that these are minor and technical amendments and have no points to raise.